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CALLOWAY, JAMES R., M.D.
Vol. 5, p. 1813

The pioneer medical practitioner of Paul's Valley is Doctor
Calloway, who located in that small village in October, 1889. That,
it will be remembered, was only a few months after the original
opening of Oklahoma Territory, and at the beginning of the epoch of
modern development and civilization in the present state. For more
than twenty-five years Doctor Calloway has carried his skill and
counsel to hundreds of homes and families in that city and
surrounding country. In the early days he underwent all the hardships
and privations of a pioneer doctor, traveling for miles to visit his
patients, being quite regardless of his own health and comfort in the
performance of his professional duties. In later years his practice
has become more and more an office practice, and confined to a
smaller radius of country. He is a specialist in diseases of children
and in that department of the profession is regarded as second to
none in this part of the state.

His lifetime has covered a great variety of scenes and experiences.
He was born in Denton County of Northern Texas August 22, 1845, and
his father T. H. Calloway was also a physician and surgeon. Dr. T. H.
Calloway was born in Missouri in 1825. It is interesting to note that
the famous Daniel BOONE had a brother-in-law named Calloway, after
whom Calloway County, Missouri, was named. The Calloways were Scotch-
Irish people and located in Virginia during colonial times. T. H.
Calloway's parents were pioneers in Northern Texas, where he was
reared and married. In 1859, when Dr. James R. was five years of age,
he moved out to California, and lived in various places of that state
and in Oregon. In 1863 he went as one of the first pioneers to Boise
City, Idaho, and was in that state for several years during the
interesting period following the discovery of the mines in that
country. At one time he was a member of the Idaho legislature, and
always took a prominent part in civic and political affairs. In 1872
Dr. T. H. Calloway moved to the eastern part of Indian Territory, but
not long afterwards returned to Texas and located near Decatur in
Wise County. In 1884 he was again attracted to the Northwest and
settled at Caldwell, nor Boise City, Canyon County, Idaho, and lived
there until his death in 1904. When a very young man he had served
with General PRICE as a soldier in the war with Mexico and was a
participant in some of the campaigns in New Mexico. Besides his
regular profession as a physician he was a minister of the Christian
Church. In politics he was a democrat and a member of the Masonic
fraternity. Dr. T. H. Calloway married Mary ALLEN, who was born in
Missouri in 1835 and died at Caldwell, Idaho, in 1894. Their children
were: Dr. James R.; William T., a farmer at Namba, Idaho; Ida, wife
of Frank BROWN, who is a miner and lives in Boise City, Idaho;
Melinda C., wife of J. A. DEMENT, a stock raiser at Caldwell, Idaho;
and Mary Allen, who is unmarried and a graduate physician now
practicing at Boise.

Dr. James R. Calloway spent his early youth and manhood in Texas,
California and Oregon, was about nine years of age when the family
removed to Idaho, and in 1872 came with them to Indian Territory and
soon afterwards to Decatur, Wise County, Texas. His early experiences
were as a farmer and he also did some mining in Colorado. From
boyhood he was a student and some of his family called him a
bookworm. Having access to his father's medical library, he became
well grounded in the medical science so far as text-books were
concerned before reaching his majority. His father was opposed to the
idea of his practicing medicine, and it was not until he came to
Paul's Valley in the fall of 1889 that he set up as a regular member
of the profession. For a number of years he was an undergraduate
practitioner, but finally entered the medical department of Texas
Christian University at Fort Worth, where he was graduated M.D. in
1897. He is properly regarded now as one of the leading physicians in
this section of Southern Oklahoma. He was frequently called into
consultation by fellow physicians, and his wide experience has given
him a thorough post-graduate knowledge of medicine.

Like his father he was a regularly ordained minister of the
Christian Church, and between the ages of twenty and fifty preached
quite regularly and still fills an occasional pulpit. His offices are
in the Bruce Building of Paul's Valley. In territorial days he
belonged to the old Chickasaw Medical Society and was the first
president of the Washita Valley Medical Society, which afterwards
became the Garvin County Medical Society, to which he still belongs.
He is a member of the Oklahoma State Society and a member of the
American Medical Society. In politics he is an independent democrat
and is affiliated with Paul's Valley Lodge No. 196, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, in which he has frequently filled the office of
chaplain.

In Texas in 1876 Doctor Calloway married Miss Frances Elizabeth
CLEMENS. Her father was the late Andrew Clemens. To their marriage
have been born five children: John R., who is a physician and
surgeon, having taken his degree in 1907 in the St. Louis College of
Physicians and Surgeons, and is now practicing in Mescalero, New
Mexico; Ethel M. is the wife of W. W. HOWERTON, a farmer in Foster,
Oklahoma; Lillian M. is the wife of Francis L. ARMSTRONG, a fire
insurance man at Spokane, Washington; Etta Frances, who is still
single, was graduated from Boise City High School, was a teacher for
a number of years and is now a stenographer and living at home with
her father; Vivienne, also unmarried, is a sophomore in the School of
Journalism at Oklahoma State University at Norman.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).